The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats it...s object as a god, that it might deify both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.... The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »